@Danielo As noted, this is very exciting. I see one big ostacle for things to be effective; the need for a reviewer of contributions. This is a definitive bottleneck and a typical example of what I think can be solved in more "communal" ways. Compare for instance Wikipedia - no reviewer, yet works extremely well. Not saying we should do what Wikipeida does tho.
What do you think about the following... pipe dream: Basically: For a documentation topic, there is one prime version, one prime challenger version and "the rest of the challengers". (For the first two, I was considering using the terms "official" and "unofficial" but this could cause confusions with the *actually* official tw.com documents). This means all contributions are directly viewable, but presented in a certain way: Contributions climb the ladder from "challenger" to "prime challenger" to "prime" and fill the highest position available. Tiddlers are rated by the community to gain these statuses, perhaps by number of likes or such. In other words the need for review is minimized. Rating contributions also makes it easy to prioritize versions for an information seeker. The process goes like this: a tiddler that has reached prime has been; first contributed to get into the system, then voted on by community to become the prime challenger and finally reviewed by reviewer to take over prime role from the current one. The one with higest voting after this switch get's to be the new prime challenger. In other words, the job for a reviewer is minimized. The reviewer only needs to review a new prime challenger vs the current prime. And only when there actually comes a new prime challenger from votes. The community does the main job by just giving likes. Ok, that was the *general* process, when there actually is full documentation on something. If a tiddler is the very first on a topic then this gets prime status right away. No review and no matter how bad. Maybe such single contributions could be set to be editable until locked by a reviewer at some stage. Note it is still available for reading so it contributes value for an information seeker. If a second version is added, it becomes the prime challenger. Ok, there are some specific bits and pieces but that's the general idea to not have to rely much on a few individuals. As understood, all versions of a document are reached in the direct vincinity of the prime. Layout wise it could be e.g a list of tabs along the primes edge and these are sorted by rate. Or it could be a dropdown menu. Etc. There is a newhere type menu tool to create new versions which marks the created version with an identifier to which prime it belongs. No tiddler is deletable. We will need some way to clean up though, haven't thought that through. Also, on the Drive, maybe it would make sense to place all versions in one folder. Ok, this relies on voting. Is this doable with TiddlyDrive? I figure it is possible to put up public documents in Drive that can be either freely editable or limited to allow comments but no changing/deleting of anything. Thoughts? Doable or pipe dream? My main point is to distribute the work onto the community. And from what I can tell, you have most of the things in place. <:-) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
